A Passing

John Fiore, an old high school friend of mine, died yesterday morning after a long battle with leukemia. My sister Sue, who lives close to John's family in California, called to tell me the news. I had just been reading John's powerfully moving poems at breakfast. You can read them here.

I pulled off the highway yesterday afternoon to take this picture. See the square shaped opening between the two clouds? It looked to me like a window. There was a small rainbow sparkling on the left side of that opening, and I thought of John passing through that space. The cloud on the right looks like a white cat, and the cloud on the left, a hedgehog, perhaps. Two feathery white angels, nose to nose, paw to paw, forming a portal...


Godspeed, John.